Portland Trail Blazers News

Portland hopes to build on an impressive win in its last outing when it shoots for a ninth consecutive win over a reeling Minnesota Timberwolves club at the Rose Garden.

Chris Dudley's free throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena taking aim at a governor's chair - and Oregon's Republicans think he can score.

I still managed to almost miss the game when my fiancA©e informed me that watching Rihanna talk about getting beat up by Chris Brown was far more interesting than the Blazers playing against the Spurs.

My roommates are freaking out. My best friend was screaming "fire McMillan" the entire game on Tuesday against Atlanta.

A film and television production company started by former NBA player Dale Davis is moving from Pittsburgh to suburban Detroit.

Dale Schleuter, an original Portland Trail Blazer, is the opening speaker on Saturday, Nov.

San Antonio will be searching for its first road win of the young season Friday when they visit the Rose Garden to take on a Portland Trail Blazers team that has been uncharacteristically pedestrian on their home floor.

Team success is dependent on zillions of variables, only some of which are controllable.

Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy searched for an answer. The Blazers had just fallen to the Atlanta Hawks, 97-91, and Roy was forced to field a volley of questions late Tuesday night about what was troubling his team as it slogged through an early-season slump.

The Portland Trail Blazers and Oklahoma City Thunder have each been heralded in recent years as "the future of the NBA." Each team boasts several young, rising star players.

The Portland Trail Blazers have started off what should have been a promising 2010 season with a 2-3 record, including two home loses at the Rose Garden.

Sitting at his house Tuesday night, watching NBA games, Nuggets center Nene felt his palms start sweating.

What should happen to the Memorial Coliseum? On Monday, the city started accepting concept applications and a huge Rose Quarter tenant, the Portland Trail Blazers, is already pushing one idea with their launch of a new Web site called Imagine: Jump Town .

Nobody ever said winning had to be pretty. Especially not on the road and especially not when you're trying to dodge a three-game losing streak.

Jamal Crawford, the former Rainier Beach star, scored 27 points off the bench and Atlanta outlasted Portland 97-91 Tuesday night.

Last season, the Nuggets soldiered to the Western Conference finals, in part because they had one of the best benches in Basketball.

Saturday: Rockets 111, Trail Blazers 107. Record: 2-1. Monday: at Jazz, 8 p.m. TV/radio: FSH; 610 AM and 850 AM .

Hawks at Trail Blazers 7 p.m. Tuesday, Rose Garden Atlanta's probable starters No.

News: Andersen finished Wednesday's opener against the Jazz with just two points, six rebounds and one assist in 23 minutes.

Portland Trail Blazers President Larry Miller reaches into a shelf behind his pin-neat desk and sheepishly pulls out a framed photograph of himself standing next to a beaming David Stern.